In article <Pine.NEB.4.53.0304030928220.20170@chylonia.3miasto.net>,
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> wrote:
>> >> I [...] asked, "Why a full blown OS instead of some smaller
>> >> real-time thing?"
>> >> He replied, "because a megabyte of RAM only costs $1."
>
>what i'm scared the most in computer market are people that think this
>way.

No, what is more scary is people who try to fit a lot of stuff in small
memory footprints making unreasonable compromises. Remember y2k?

christos